WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.900 57th Street, center of New York's important art dealers, where masterpieces of dead artists 00:22.900 --> 00:27.640 change hands for hundreds of thousands of dollars. 00:27.640 --> 00:33.200 This is Greenwich Village, where live artists eat their hearts out for pennies. 00:33.200 --> 00:35.800 This one's name was Jack Wilson. 00:35.800 --> 00:39.400 He wanted to be an artist, and nobody cared. 00:39.400 --> 00:43.740 Even if you're one of the great ones, like Vincent Van Gogh. 00:43.740 --> 00:52.300 Van Gogh, the genius, who became violent and finally committed suicide, because nobody cared. 00:52.300 --> 01:08.240 What's happening to me? 01:08.240 --> 01:12.040 Am I going out of my mind? 01:12.040 --> 01:15.040 You're Wilson, you fool. 01:15.040 --> 01:17.040 Wilson, Jack Wilson. 01:17.040 --> 01:30.960 It's beautifully executed, Miss Dean, but I'm afraid it's a fake. 01:30.960 --> 01:33.160 I don't believe this was painted by Van Gogh. 01:33.160 --> 01:36.840 Well, I've seen it in museums, reproduced in books. 01:36.840 --> 01:39.520 You've seen the original, not this one. 01:39.520 --> 01:40.520 I can't believe it. 01:40.520 --> 01:43.920 Well, it almost fooled me, too, and I'm supposed to be the expert. 01:43.920 --> 01:46.920 And it cost me $60,000. 01:46.920 --> 01:49.800 How can you be sure that it's a copy? 01:49.800 --> 01:50.800 Just a sense of it. 01:50.800 --> 01:54.800 You know, the way friends can tell the difference between identical twins. 01:54.800 --> 01:57.320 Well, why don't we look at the x-ray and make sure? 01:57.320 --> 01:59.320 Yes, they should be about ready. 01:59.320 --> 02:12.440 Now, of course, the x-ray won't prove anything unless this has been painted over an earlier 02:12.440 --> 02:13.440 painting. 02:13.440 --> 02:14.440 Ah, yes. 02:14.440 --> 02:17.440 In the corner there, Salas. 02:17.440 --> 02:18.440 Who? 02:18.440 --> 02:24.440 Rudolph Salas, a mediocre painter, a contemporary of Van Gogh. 02:24.440 --> 02:28.440 Now, Van Gogh himself was another man's canvas, but the copyist had to. 02:28.440 --> 02:29.440 Why? 02:29.440 --> 02:34.440 Well, any expert would spot a new canvas in a minute. 02:34.440 --> 02:39.440 This canvas is authentically 60 years old, even if the painting isn't. 02:39.440 --> 02:40.440 But that's incredible. 02:40.440 --> 02:45.440 Well, I've bought paintings from Mr. Corso for over 20 years, a most reputable dealer. 02:45.440 --> 02:48.440 Well, if I was fooled, Corso undoubtedly was, too. 02:48.440 --> 02:49.440 Maybe. 02:49.440 --> 02:50.440 Maybe not. 02:50.440 --> 02:52.440 We'd better have a little talk with him, Casey. 02:52.440 --> 02:53.440 What do you mean? 02:53.440 --> 02:56.440 I mean, you've been taken for $60,000, Miss Dean. 02:56.440 --> 02:59.440 That may not be much to you, but it is to the Frauds Bureau. 02:59.440 --> 03:00.440 Frauds? 03:00.440 --> 03:01.440 Oh, that's absurd. 03:01.440 --> 03:03.440 I'm sure Mr. Corso will return the money. 03:03.440 --> 03:06.440 Well, there's more to it than just that, Miss Dean. 03:06.440 --> 03:09.440 You see, one masterpiece is missing. 03:09.440 --> 03:12.440 One fake has been made and sold. 03:12.440 --> 03:13.440 One that we know of. 03:13.440 --> 03:15.440 It may have been others. 03:15.440 --> 03:18.440 Our responsibility is to protect the general public. 03:18.440 --> 03:20.440 Not only you or $60,000. 03:20.440 --> 03:22.440 We've got to find the people who pulled the job. 03:22.440 --> 03:24.440 But Mr. Corso is a gentleman. 03:24.440 --> 03:26.440 He is also our only lead. 03:26.440 --> 03:28.440 I'll have to ask for your cooperation, Miss Dean. 03:28.440 --> 03:31.440 If necessary, I'll have to insist on it. 03:31.440 --> 03:32.440 Do I make myself clear? 03:32.440 --> 03:33.440 Yes. 03:33.440 --> 03:34.440 Yes, of course. 03:34.440 --> 03:36.440 Radson? 03:36.440 --> 03:38.440 All right, Casey. 03:38.440 --> 03:41.440 What do you know about Van Gogh? 03:41.440 --> 03:42.440 Van Gogh, Vincent. 03:42.440 --> 03:45.440 Wasn't recognized as a genius until after his death. 03:45.440 --> 03:47.440 Had the violence. 03:47.440 --> 03:50.440 Deliberately cut off his own hair with a razor. 03:50.440 --> 03:53.440 They put him away after that, and he ended up in suicide. 03:53.440 --> 03:54.440 I'm impressed. 03:54.440 --> 03:56.440 Well, I saw the movie. 03:56.440 --> 03:57.440 Good enough. 03:57.440 --> 03:58.440 You're appointed. 03:58.440 --> 03:59.440 I'm appointed what? 03:59.440 --> 04:01.440 The police department art expert. 04:01.440 --> 04:11.440 As of now. 04:11.440 --> 04:15.440 I can count on your help, Mr. Radson? 04:15.440 --> 04:16.440 Yes, of course. 04:16.440 --> 04:20.440 But I think I should warn you, you're looking for a unique artist. 04:20.440 --> 04:23.440 A man with an uncanny gift. 04:23.440 --> 04:26.440 The gift of living so completely inside another man's skin 04:26.440 --> 04:30.440 that he could not only feel the very brush strokes of another man's hand, 04:30.440 --> 04:32.440 but almost his pulse beat. 04:32.440 --> 04:37.440 A man living a double life, his own and Van Gogh's. 04:37.440 --> 04:42.440 A split personality more than likely, and therefore... 04:42.440 --> 04:43.440 Dangerous? 04:43.440 --> 04:44.440 Yes. 04:44.440 --> 04:58.440 Dangerous. 04:58.440 --> 05:02.440 After squeezing a half a year's art appreciation course in the three days, 05:02.440 --> 05:05.440 I was ready to tackle Mr. Corso. 05:05.440 --> 05:08.440 By the time I visited his gallery, there was very little about Van Gogh 05:08.440 --> 05:10.440 and his work that I didn't know. 05:10.440 --> 05:14.440 Including the fact that the original had been loaned for exhibition in New York 05:14.440 --> 05:17.440 only once, two years ago. 05:17.440 --> 05:21.440 It could have been copied then, but that was long before it ever passed 05:21.440 --> 05:24.440 through Mr. Corso's hands. 05:24.440 --> 05:25.440 Well, it's pretty. 05:25.440 --> 05:28.440 But is it art? 05:28.440 --> 05:30.440 I'm the Dean's secretary. 05:30.440 --> 05:32.440 My appointment was at three o'clock. 05:32.440 --> 05:34.440 Ah, yes, Miss Chalmers, I believe. 05:34.440 --> 05:37.440 Won't you sit down? 05:37.440 --> 05:40.440 It is neither pretty nor art. 05:40.440 --> 05:41.440 Well, then why do you... 05:41.440 --> 05:43.440 Why do I keep it on the wall? 05:43.440 --> 05:44.440 With? 05:44.440 --> 05:47.440 To sharpen my artistic appetite. 05:47.440 --> 05:52.440 It makes the ecstasy of looking at a masterpiece even more intense. 05:52.440 --> 05:54.440 Masterpiece like a Van Gogh? 05:54.440 --> 05:58.440 Miss Dean has acquired a priceless possession. 05:58.440 --> 06:01.440 It was very hard to secure that Van Gogh for her. 06:01.440 --> 06:04.440 He had been in the Château Ponce for 50 years. 06:04.440 --> 06:06.440 Is she happy with it? 06:06.440 --> 06:07.440 Oh, yes. 06:07.440 --> 06:13.440 Yes, so much so that she liked copymaid. 06:13.440 --> 06:17.440 She thought you might know some artist who... 06:17.440 --> 06:19.440 A copy. 06:19.440 --> 06:22.440 She has the original and she wants a copy? 06:22.440 --> 06:26.440 Well, for her summer home in Southampton, 06:26.440 --> 06:29.440 she wouldn't risk moving the original. 06:29.440 --> 06:33.440 Well, she thought she would like a copy if she could find a perfect one. 06:33.440 --> 06:36.440 In art, a perfect copy is a contradiction of terms. 06:36.440 --> 06:38.440 Perfection lies only in the original 06:38.440 --> 06:41.440 into which the life and spirit of the artist have been poured. 06:41.440 --> 06:45.440 Well, I know, but she thought you might know some artist who... 06:45.440 --> 06:46.440 I would not. 06:46.440 --> 06:51.440 I would not want to know an artist who would presume to copy a masterpiece. 06:51.440 --> 06:54.440 I do not associate with counterfeiters. 06:54.440 --> 06:56.440 Good afternoon, Miss Charles. 06:56.440 --> 07:09.440 And there he was again, 07:09.440 --> 07:12.440 staring at the painting he didn't like. 07:12.440 --> 07:16.440 But counterfeiters do exist. 07:16.440 --> 07:19.440 Whether Mr. Corso associated with them or not 07:19.440 --> 07:24.440 was up to me to find one with the brush and the pulse of Van Gogh. 07:24.440 --> 07:29.440 I went down to Greenwich Village, the annual outdoor art show. 07:29.440 --> 07:34.440 Painters, would-be painters, shoppers, tourists, 07:34.440 --> 07:46.440 more browsing than buying. 07:46.440 --> 07:49.440 It was like looking for a needle in a haystack. 07:49.440 --> 07:56.440 But even a needle can be found if it's there. 07:56.440 --> 08:00.440 A couple of days after I got started, I landed in the Ventura Bar. 08:00.440 --> 08:04.440 I had located six artists who had made copies of Starry Night. 08:04.440 --> 08:08.440 None of them could have painted the one sold to Miss Dean. 08:08.440 --> 08:10.440 Ah, excuse me. 08:10.440 --> 08:14.440 The bartender told me that you might know of an artist who could make a copy of a Van Gogh. 08:14.440 --> 08:16.440 I know dozens of them. 08:16.440 --> 08:19.440 Look, I'm not looking for just a good copyist. I'm looking for a great one. 08:19.440 --> 08:22.440 One that could duplicate a Van Gogh so perfectly, 08:22.440 --> 08:24.440 it would fool Van Gogh himself if he were alive. 08:24.440 --> 08:27.440 Do you believe in reincarnation, lady? 08:27.440 --> 08:32.440 Submerging yourself into someone else's personality isn't exactly reincarnation. 08:32.440 --> 08:34.440 I'm sure that there is such a man. 08:34.440 --> 08:37.440 Well, I don't know any weirdos like that, Miss. 08:37.440 --> 08:39.440 Present company accepted, of course. 08:39.440 --> 08:41.440 Yeah. 08:41.440 --> 08:44.440 Well, I guess the man I'm looking for is pretty weird. 08:44.440 --> 08:46.440 Wait a minute. 08:46.440 --> 08:49.440 There was this kid at the Art Student League's ball. 08:49.440 --> 08:52.440 Yeah? What about him? 08:52.440 --> 08:55.440 Nothing much, except he turned up wearing a bandage around his ear 08:55.440 --> 08:58.440 and then carrying a paper mache ear. 08:58.440 --> 09:01.440 That sounds promising. 09:01.440 --> 09:05.440 His name was Wilson. Jack Wilson. 09:05.440 --> 09:08.440 He lives over on Horatio Street down by the river. 09:08.440 --> 09:11.440 He used to. 09:11.440 --> 09:14.440 Oh, is he a good painter? 09:14.440 --> 09:19.440 I don't know, but he did a beautiful job with that ear. 09:23.440 --> 09:26.440 Turn your head a little bit more to the right. 09:26.440 --> 09:28.440 It hurts my neck. 09:28.440 --> 09:30.440 Anyway, it's my bad side. 09:30.440 --> 09:32.440 Milly, please. 09:32.440 --> 09:35.440 Oh, it is. I mean, everybody's got one side that's better than another, 09:35.440 --> 09:37.440 even Marilyn Monroe. 09:37.440 --> 09:40.440 I was crazy to let you pose me this way. 09:40.440 --> 09:42.440 I'll probably look terrible. 09:42.440 --> 09:45.440 Will you stop bothering me? I'm trying to work. 09:45.440 --> 09:47.440 I'm not stopping you. 09:47.440 --> 09:49.440 I just want to see how I look. 09:49.440 --> 09:51.440 Not till I finish it. 09:51.440 --> 09:53.440 Oh, don't be so touchy. 09:53.440 --> 09:55.440 I said no! 09:55.440 --> 09:57.440 Let go of me! 09:57.440 --> 09:59.440 Take your position. 10:03.440 --> 10:05.440 Oh, no! That's not me! 10:05.440 --> 10:07.440 It doesn't look like me at all! 10:07.440 --> 10:09.440 I'm not a photographer. 10:09.440 --> 10:11.440 It doesn't look like anybody. You ought to have your eyes examined. 10:11.440 --> 10:13.440 Nobody could be that ugly. 10:13.440 --> 10:15.440 It's not ugly. It's vibrant. It's alive. 10:15.440 --> 10:18.440 If that's alive, it ought to be in a sideshow with the rest of the freak. 10:18.440 --> 10:20.440 Now, you get out of here. 10:20.440 --> 10:22.440 And while you're at it, you better have your head examined, too. 10:22.440 --> 10:24.440 I said get out! 10:24.440 --> 10:26.440 Now, you get out! 10:26.440 --> 10:28.440 Don't paint. My kid says you can paint better than you. 10:28.440 --> 10:30.440 Get out. 10:30.440 --> 10:35.440 You better be careful if you're going to pose for him. 10:35.440 --> 10:37.440 Well, you heard her. 10:37.440 --> 10:39.440 I'm not a model. 10:39.440 --> 10:41.440 No? 10:41.440 --> 10:45.440 I, uh, I may be a customer. 10:45.440 --> 10:47.440 Well, in that case, don't worry. 10:47.440 --> 10:49.440 Only a rough-up model is not a customer. 10:49.440 --> 10:51.440 Who told you about me? 10:51.440 --> 10:54.440 Oh, I, uh, I saw your painting somewhere. 10:54.440 --> 10:56.440 The art supply shop over on 6th Avenue? 10:56.440 --> 10:58.440 Yeah, that's it. 10:58.440 --> 11:00.440 That's a nice guy. 11:00.440 --> 11:02.440 He let me hang a couple of canvases in his window for a week or so. 11:02.440 --> 11:08.440 Well, if you, uh, invite me in to see some of your paintings, I, uh, I won't misunderstand. 11:08.440 --> 11:10.440 You're invited. 11:16.440 --> 11:18.440 Oh, do you mind if I look around? 11:18.440 --> 11:20.440 Help yourself. 11:20.440 --> 11:23.440 I've got to clean some brushes. 11:23.440 --> 11:28.440 Uh, by the way, uh, you know, I really don't rough-up models. 11:28.440 --> 11:31.440 They're too hard to get on credit. 11:31.440 --> 11:33.440 What was that all about? 11:33.440 --> 11:36.440 Not that it's, uh, any of my business. 11:36.440 --> 11:38.440 Oh, Millie, she's a good kid. 11:38.440 --> 11:40.440 Except when she makes like an art critic. 11:40.440 --> 11:44.440 There's no state law that says everybody's got to like the way I paint. 11:44.440 --> 11:47.440 But I don't have to listen for that reason. 11:49.440 --> 11:51.440 Don't you like people? 11:51.440 --> 11:53.440 Sure. 11:53.440 --> 11:59.440 But if you're really trying to say something on your canvas, trying to get to the heart of the subject, 11:59.440 --> 12:01.440 you've got to fight it through by yourself. 12:01.440 --> 12:03.440 You've got to be alone. 12:05.440 --> 12:07.440 Even when you paint a portrait? 12:07.440 --> 12:10.440 I see what you mean. 12:10.440 --> 12:16.440 But if you're serious about art, you've got to paint the world the way you see it and feel it. 12:16.440 --> 12:21.440 The artist who doesn't paint that way ought to throw his brushes away and buy himself a camera. 12:24.440 --> 12:26.440 Do you know what I'm talking about? 12:26.440 --> 12:28.440 Yeah, I think so. 12:28.440 --> 12:31.440 I wish more people did. 12:31.440 --> 12:35.440 Sometimes I wonder if I'm not up in a tree somewhere painting for the birds. 12:36.440 --> 12:39.440 This is interesting. 12:39.440 --> 12:41.440 It is? 12:41.440 --> 12:46.440 What? 12:46.440 --> 12:49.440 Well, it has a certain intensity. 12:49.440 --> 12:54.440 It's like, um, like... 12:54.440 --> 12:55.440 Like what? 12:55.440 --> 12:58.440 It's like a self-portrait of Van Gogh. 12:58.440 --> 13:00.440 You know the one I mean? 13:00.440 --> 13:03.440 No, I don't know. 13:03.440 --> 13:11.440 Anyway, it's not the same. 13:13.440 --> 13:15.440 What about this one? 13:15.440 --> 13:19.440 This has the same sort of quality. 13:19.440 --> 13:24.440 Look, I, um, I can't afford to pay very much. 13:24.440 --> 13:27.440 Well, how much is very much? 13:27.440 --> 13:29.440 Well, would a hundred dollars be all right? 13:29.440 --> 13:31.440 Look, I know that it's worth more than that. 13:31.440 --> 13:34.440 Of course it is! 13:34.440 --> 13:36.440 You want me to frame it for you? 13:36.440 --> 13:39.440 Oh, no. No, that's all right. I just assume frame it myself. 13:39.440 --> 13:44.440 You know, actually, it's a pretty fair price. 13:44.440 --> 13:48.440 Oh, thanks a lot, Miss, uh... 13:48.440 --> 13:50.440 Chalmers. 13:50.440 --> 13:53.440 The first sale I've made in a long, long time. 13:53.440 --> 13:58.440 Oh, maybe that'll, uh, that'll bring you luck. 13:58.440 --> 14:01.440 You know, I, uh... 14:01.440 --> 14:05.440 I might be able to get you a commission the way you paint. 14:05.440 --> 14:07.440 A commission? 14:07.440 --> 14:11.440 Well, that is, if you can do the kind of work that's required. 14:11.440 --> 14:13.440 What's required? A portrait? 14:13.440 --> 14:18.440 No. You see, the woman I work for owns a wonderful Van Gogh. 14:18.440 --> 14:22.440 And she wants a copy of it. 14:22.440 --> 14:25.440 A copy? Oh, what do you think I am? 14:25.440 --> 14:29.440 Well, lots of artists, you know, made copies of masterpieces. 14:29.440 --> 14:31.440 What makes you think that I... 14:31.440 --> 14:35.440 I didn't mean that. It's just that you have such a wonderful style for Van Gogh. 14:35.440 --> 14:38.440 I don't do copies. Not anymore. You understand? 14:38.440 --> 14:41.440 If your boss wants a Wilson, bring her around. 14:41.440 --> 14:44.440 That's who I am. Wilson. Jack Wilson. 14:44.440 --> 14:47.440 Not Bitson Van Gogh. I'm Wilson! 14:47.440 --> 14:50.440 Do you hear me? 14:50.440 --> 14:53.440 I hear you. 14:53.440 --> 14:57.440 If you should change your mind, Mr. uh... 14:57.440 --> 15:24.440 Wilson. 15:24.440 --> 15:28.440 Not exactly. I wanted to take a look at what you've been doing lately. 15:28.440 --> 15:30.440 Be my guest. It's all here. 15:30.440 --> 15:33.440 Oh, practically. 15:33.440 --> 15:36.440 Except for the canvas that Miss Charlwood has just purchased. 15:36.440 --> 15:38.440 How did you know? 15:38.440 --> 15:42.440 It's not a very involved deduction. She left carrying a canvas. Unwrapped. 15:42.440 --> 15:45.440 No, I mean, how did you know her name? 15:45.440 --> 15:49.440 A successful art dealer makes it his business to know many people. 15:49.440 --> 15:53.440 So I thought I'd ask you to come over and see what you've been up to. 15:53.440 --> 15:56.440 Certainly Miss Dean's private secretary would be among them. 15:56.440 --> 15:59.440 Who's Miss Dean? 15:59.440 --> 16:02.440 Don't you know? 16:02.440 --> 16:05.440 Never heard of her. 16:05.440 --> 16:08.440 I thought perhaps you might. 16:08.440 --> 16:11.440 Unless... Unless what? 16:11.440 --> 16:14.440 Does she own a Van Gogh? 16:14.440 --> 16:17.440 Why do you ask? 16:17.440 --> 16:20.440 Five hundred you paid me for copying the Starry Night. 16:20.440 --> 16:23.440 I don't think so. 16:23.440 --> 16:26.440 Really? Well, now maybe we can do something about that. 16:26.440 --> 16:29.440 Your work has improved enormously. 16:29.440 --> 16:32.440 You really think so? 16:32.440 --> 16:35.440 I'm not usually given to either flattery. Only... 16:35.440 --> 16:38.440 Only what? 16:38.440 --> 16:41.440 Yes. Yes. Definitely. 16:41.440 --> 16:44.440 This man could have made the copy. 16:44.440 --> 16:48.440 Well, if he did, he might be able to lead us to the man who paid him. 16:48.440 --> 16:51.440 Unless it was his own idea. 16:51.440 --> 16:54.440 Maybe. I don't think so. 16:54.440 --> 16:57.440 Oh, would you call Lieutenant Fletcher for me? 16:57.440 --> 17:00.440 Ask him to meet me here. 17:00.440 --> 17:03.440 I'll be back with Wilson in half an hour. 17:03.440 --> 17:06.440 It was good enough to pass for an original. 17:06.440 --> 17:09.440 That's not true. 17:09.440 --> 17:12.440 You tried to look like Van Gogh, to paint like Van Gogh. 17:12.440 --> 17:15.440 No. But you cannot imitate genius. You would only copy it. 17:15.440 --> 17:18.440 You would only copy a plastic machine. 17:18.440 --> 17:21.440 That you can do brilliantly enough. 17:21.440 --> 17:24.440 Brilliantly enough to sell for sixty thousand dollars. 17:24.440 --> 17:27.440 That's fraud. 17:27.440 --> 17:30.440 And you painted it. 17:30.440 --> 17:33.440 If this is ever known, if you are ever known, 17:33.440 --> 17:36.440 it will be only as the fraud who painted one canvas for fake Van Gogh. 17:36.440 --> 17:39.440 That's not true. I've painted hundreds of canvases. 17:39.440 --> 17:42.440 You have painted just one thing. That's all. That's all you are. 17:42.440 --> 17:45.440 The fraud who painted the fake Van Gogh. 17:45.440 --> 17:48.440 The fraud who painted the fake Van Gogh. 17:48.440 --> 17:51.440 My life. My whole life. 17:51.440 --> 17:54.440 And if this is ever known, 17:54.440 --> 18:13.440 if you are ever known, you are finished. 18:13.440 --> 18:35.440 Thank you, sir. 18:35.440 --> 19:03.440 I'm sorry. 19:03.440 --> 19:06.440 So that's why you bought the painting. 19:06.440 --> 19:09.440 To analyze the brush strokes. 19:09.440 --> 19:12.440 I told you I'm going to hang it in my apartment. 19:12.440 --> 19:15.440 Are you sure Mr. Corso didn't tell you where the original might be? 19:15.440 --> 19:18.440 No. Never occurred to me to ask. 19:18.440 --> 19:21.440 Are you telling me the truth? 19:21.440 --> 19:24.440 Of course I am. Why would I lie to you? 19:24.440 --> 19:27.440 I'm looking for a painting worth sixty thousand dollars. 19:27.440 --> 19:30.440 For sixty thousand dollars a lot of people might lie. 19:30.440 --> 19:33.440 You don't suspect me, do you? 19:33.440 --> 19:36.440 I suspect everybody. 19:36.440 --> 19:39.440 Even a young idiot stupid enough to try and take his own life. 19:39.440 --> 19:42.440 You don't understand. 19:42.440 --> 19:45.440 I understand that a man must have a soul of his own. 19:45.440 --> 19:48.440 Not let it be destroyed by some smooth talking art dealer. 19:48.440 --> 19:51.440 The same boys that told Van Gogh that he had no talent. 19:51.440 --> 19:54.440 Yeah. I wasn't thinking. 19:54.440 --> 19:57.440 Oh. Well it's about time you started doing some thinking. 19:57.440 --> 20:00.440 I'm going to kill him. 20:00.440 --> 20:03.440 Now stop talking like a child. 20:03.440 --> 20:06.440 Are you sure that Corso didn't leave any hint of where the original might be? 20:06.440 --> 20:09.440 I told you. 20:09.440 --> 20:12.440 He only said it was in the hands of someone who would truly appreciate it. 20:12.440 --> 20:15.440 You didn't tell me that. 20:15.440 --> 20:18.440 So what? Could be anyone of a million people. 20:18.440 --> 20:21.440 A masterpiece like that people would do anything to get a hold of it. 20:21.440 --> 20:27.440 Somebody who would really appreciate it. 20:27.440 --> 20:30.440 All right. Now you sit tight and behave yourself. 20:30.440 --> 20:33.440 And no more tricks with gas heaters. 20:33.440 --> 21:02.440 You're too weak to move. 21:02.440 --> 21:05.440 What do you think you're doing? 21:05.440 --> 21:08.440 I was admiring your masterpiece. 21:08.440 --> 21:11.440 That's trash. I thought you had better taste. 21:11.440 --> 21:14.440 I must ask you to leave Miss Chalmers. 21:14.440 --> 21:17.440 My name isn't Chalmers Mr. Corso. It's Jones. 21:17.440 --> 21:20.440 I'm a policewoman. 21:20.440 --> 21:23.440 I don't care who you are. This is my private office. Get out. 21:23.440 --> 21:26.440 You have a gun in there haven't you? 21:26.440 --> 21:29.440 You write to my desk too? 21:29.440 --> 21:32.440 I'd stay away from there Mr. Corso. I'm warning you. 21:32.440 --> 21:35.440 Are you threatening me with that thing? 21:35.440 --> 21:38.440 You'd be dead before you could take three steps. 21:38.440 --> 21:41.440 It's only a few steps to this painting Mr. Corso. 21:41.440 --> 21:44.440 I could slash it to pieces before you got your hands on that gun. 21:44.440 --> 21:47.440 No. 21:47.440 --> 21:50.440 Well you seem to value this little piece of trash more than you pretend don't you? 21:50.440 --> 21:53.440 Please be careful of that dagger. 21:53.440 --> 21:56.440 Must I take this down and have it x-rayed? 21:56.440 --> 22:03.440 Or are you willing to tell me that under a couple of layers of paint and varnish is Van Gogh's original starry night? 22:03.440 --> 22:06.440 Corso I want to talk to you. 22:06.440 --> 22:09.440 Jack look out. He's got a gun. 22:12.440 --> 22:15.440 Hand me that gun Jack. 22:15.440 --> 22:20.440 Now don't try anything with Mr. Corso. If you do you'll be painting prison pictures for 99 years. 22:20.440 --> 22:23.440 Now hand it to me. 22:23.440 --> 22:26.440 Sit down Mr. Corso. 22:26.440 --> 22:29.440 Jack take that painting down. 22:29.440 --> 22:32.440 But be very careful of it. 22:32.440 --> 22:35.440 It's worth $60,000. 22:35.440 --> 22:38.440 Police headquarters. 22:38.440 --> 22:42.440 I still can't figure out what pleasure it gave you to have the original when you couldn't see it. 22:42.440 --> 22:45.440 You wouldn't understand. 22:45.440 --> 22:48.440 Jones. An arrest. 22:48.440 --> 22:51.440 Also the recovery of a stolen painting. 22:51.440 --> 22:54.440 The Corso gallery is on East 57th street. 22:54.440 --> 22:57.440 Yeah. Alright. 22:59.440 --> 23:02.440 You haven't answered my question. 23:02.440 --> 23:05.440 I wanted to. 23:05.440 --> 23:08.440 Someday I would remove the mediocre painting that covered the masterpiece. 23:08.440 --> 23:12.440 And then I would really see those violent blues and greens. 23:12.440 --> 23:15.440 The tortured world. 23:15.440 --> 23:18.440 The cypress trees. 23:18.440 --> 23:21.440 The destiny. The sky pressing down on the earth. 23:21.440 --> 23:24.440 The stars about to explode. 23:24.440 --> 23:28.440 And until that day I could see it as I see it now. 23:28.440 --> 23:31.440 In my mind's eye. 23:31.440 --> 23:35.440 And until then it would be mine. 23:35.440 --> 23:38.440 Mine alone. 23:38.440 --> 23:42.440 I knew you wouldn't understand. 23:46.440 --> 23:49.440 Well. 23:49.440 --> 23:52.440 I think maybe I do. 23:52.440 --> 23:55.440 Do you, Jack? 23:55.440 --> 23:58.440 Sure. This guy's nuts. 24:01.440 --> 24:04.440 Alright, Mr. Corso. 24:04.440 --> 24:07.440 Let's answer a few questions. 24:07.440 --> 24:10.440 Sure. 24:14.440 --> 24:17.440 You know. 24:17.440 --> 24:20.440 It really is a pretty great painting. 24:20.440 --> 24:23.440 Even though Van Gogh painted it himself? 24:23.440 --> 24:26.440 Well. Thanks for everything, Miss Jones. 24:26.440 --> 24:29.440 I'll be seeing you. I have an important appointment. 24:29.440 --> 24:32.440 With an art dealer? 24:32.440 --> 24:37.440 Yes. 24:37.440 --> 24:41.440 Three people caught with the genius of a dead painter. 24:41.440 --> 24:44.440 A woman who could afford to buy it. 24:44.440 --> 24:47.440 A dealer who had to possess it. 24:47.440 --> 24:51.440 And a young painter who had to get it out of his system. 24:51.440 --> 24:54.440 Oh, and as a fourth. 24:54.440 --> 24:57.440 I'm caught up with the fever too. 24:57.440 --> 25:00.440 Get down to the next Van Gogh exhibit. 25:00.440 --> 25:03.440 Yes, sir. 25:30.440 --> 25:34.440 © BF-WATCH TV 2021